Florida's next chief financial officer will be one of Gov. Rick Scott's original political allies.
Scott on Monday turned to former state Rep. Jimmy Patronis, 45, to complete the term of Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater, who will leave the...

The budget countdown is on, and the speculation over a possible special session is only intensifying, because the same people who sent Gov. Rick Scott the budget are pretty sure he's going to use it for toilet paper.

Former Democratic state senator and Parkland resident Jeremy Ring became the first candidate to formally jump into the 2018 race for state chief financial officer Tuesday.
“My guess is this will be a race where it will be one Democrat and one...

Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater will resign his position after the 2017 legislative session ends in May, his office announced Friday.
Atwater will join Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, where he will serve as the university’s...

Happy New Year! OK, so it's a good 36 hours or so early, but this is the last Power Lunch before 2017 and also the last one until Tuesday. Let's start by talking about Boris and Natasha being kicked to the curb.

Most election talk and thought revolves around this year's presidential election, but some of the Florida Democrats who gathered over the weekend in Hollywood were looking beyond November toward the 2018 race for governor.The governor's office is an...

He's part of the top 1 percent — at a time when much of the Democratic base has embraced the populist left.
He's been an elected officials for 10 years — as the political energy is with the outsiders.
He's mapping out a possible candidacy for governor —...

TALLAHASSEE Gov. Rick Scott signed a measure Friday that will help families of first responders who are enrolled in the Florida Retirement System and get killed in the line of duty.
The death-benefits bill (SB 7012), a priority of Senate President Andy...

High school foreign language students may soon replace "adios" with "algorithm" and "bonjour" with "bitmap."
For many, computer jargon such as html or XML already seems like a foreign language – and the Florida Legislature seems to agree. If it passes...

If computer coding might soon be considered a foreign language for Florida high school students, I wanted to give this brave new world a shot.
So I got the bill's sponsor, state Sen. Jeremy Ring, D-Yahoo!, on the phone Friday.
"Bracket, backslash, HTML,...

All children deserve the opportunity to pursue their own unique educational and career goals.
Unfortunately, as my wife and I experienced following the birth of our son, all too often children diagnosed with developmental disabilities lose out on...

Companies that refuse to invest in Israel will see Florida refuse to invest in them under a bill that is on its way to the floor of the Florida Senate.
The bill would mandate that the state's pension funds not invest in companies that support the BDS...

The disappearance at sea of two Tequesta teenagers has prompted two state lawmakers to file legislation giving incentives to boaters who buy emergency locater devices.
Sen. Joe Negron, R-Stuart, and Rep. MaryLynn Magar, R-Tequesta, proposed their bills...